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Sorting through my boxes I came across 4 different monographs.
No.27 Jan 1960 The equipment of the BBC television film studios at Ealing
No.28 Feb 1960 Programme switching, control and monitoring in sound broadcasting.
No.69 Sept 1967 a survey of the development of television test cards used in the BBC
No.77 Mar 1969 The automatic control of sound-signal level in broadcasting studios
Some include interesting photos

Is there anyone interested?

Head of Network Radio 1971 – 1990,  Jock Gallagher died on the 27th of May 2025 in the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, at the age of 87.

Jock’s funeral will be at:


Wyre Forest Crematorium
Minster Road
Stourport
DY13 8AS

on 25 June at 12:30.

And afterwards at:

Wharton Park Golf and Country Club
Longbank
Bewdley
DY12 2QW


Whilst the family and close friends will be wearing black, there is no dress code, as Jock would have wanted people to wear what they wish. Flowers from family only, please.

I'm so sorry to hear the news of Miti's passing. Over the years we worked on so many shows and festivals. I send my condolences and love to Sam Cunningham Adhikari.

Former colleagues will be saddened to hear of the death of Jack Thompson, the former Cairo, and South East Asia correspondent.  This is from his son Barnaby:  “Dear friends of JJack Thompson- a message from his son, Barnaby:
Last Thursday, my father died suddenly of a heart attack. He was at the wheel of his car, just returning to his home in Dulwich after a shopping trip, when it seems that he felt unwell, put the handbrake on to make the car safe (typical), passed out and didn’t wake up despite efforts by passers-by and then paramedics to revive him.
He had been down in the dumps for a while, as you will have seen from some of his forlorn Facebook posts. He never got over Kathryn’s death in January 2024, and was rattling around in a large house containing 37+ years of memories, very much feeling his loneliness despite our efforts to visit as often as possible (there was someone here every day, but evenings and mealtimes became particular ordeals). But he still loved recalling ancient encounters with friends and foes, stories in which many of you featured prominently (and repeatedly). He had recently dug out and was leafing through his old notebooks and contacts books from Thailand, Singapore, Cairo and elsewhere, plus the lovely book of farewell messages from colleagues when he retired. He had a massive heart, even if it let him down on that last shopping trip, and it took only an hour or so in the pub or a good meal to revive some of the old Jack.
He rejoiced in the description of him as “curmudgeonly and subversive”, given to him after a particularly abrasive BBC annual appraisal, but he was always too close to laughter to be a curmudgeon and didn’t have anything like enough guile to be subversive. He loved red socks, red trousers and red wine. He still occasionally tickled the old ivories and would demonstrate a couple of tricks that Dudley Moore had taught him when they did the combined Oxford and Cambridge review together. He never threw a book away, so if anyone wants any books on southeast Asia in the 1980s, let me know, we have lots.
This isn't meant to be an obit and I am droning on... I will post details of the funeral and wake here once I have them; you are all very welcome to attend. I'd be grateful if someone could pass on the sad news to BBC and DW networks. We all miss him terribly but we have lots of great memories to comfort ourselves with. (Or, as he would have insisted, with which to comfort ourselves...)
Cheers all - raise a glass, stay in touch, and I will keep you posted. Lots of love from him and us!”

News arrived today that Mary Husband just died, she had had ongoing dementia for some years. Her family live in Canada, there will be no funeral in the UK but I will of course pass on any condolences to her daughter Clara. Prue Hanley will write an Obituary about Mary for publication in next edition of Prospero (whenever that will be!)

Husband John Sennett has asked me to announce:
If anyone you know will be around, on Sunday 6th July at St Botolphs Church, Swyncombe Henley-on-Thames RG9 6EA, we'll be laying the Ledger Stone over Patti's ashes in accordance with her wishes then back to the Fat Fox Pub for a bit of reminiscing!!

I am sad to report that Trevor Harris passed away on the 31st May. Cause of death is awaiting a PM. Trevor worked in LBH CR as a TO and then as an SM for his entire working life including being an origanal 'Afternoon Boy'on the Steve Wright Show on Radio 1 and continued on Steves Radio 2 show until retirement. If you used any of Steves racing tips and lost, it was one of Trevors!

There is a Guardian obituary here, by Stephen Bates.

It is with great sadness that I have to report the passing of Roy Anthony Clifford (a.k.a Roy deClifford) on Saturday 10th May, 2025.

Born in 1944, Roy had been a long-serving member of London's BH Control Room Technical Operations staff, eventually becoming a Broadcast Duty Manager in 1989 until his retirement.

Although he'd been 'unwell' for the past couple of years - thought to be due to complications caused by Long Covid - following some revised treatment Roy's health had appeared to be slowly recovering, until a recent deterioration in his condition which led to his death.

Whilst the family await a medical examiner’s pronouncement on the exact cause of death, they are unable to make any funeral arrangements.

Condolences to wife Pam, and to their stepchildren.